RE: setting up french keyboard
--- Webster, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 10:34 To: Webster, Andrew; freebsd-questions Subject: RE: setting up french keyboard --- Webster, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 22:19 To: freebsd-questions Subject: setting up french keyboard Hi. Does anyone know how I can set up my 5.4 system to output French characters? If so, how? You can set the LANG environment variable. For example setting it to fr_CA.ISO8859-1 will produce French Canadian error messages with ISO8859-1 characters. You can see all the available locales with 'locale -a' command. You might need to change the screen fonts for other languages, but the default ISO8859-1 set works fine. Only programs that are locale aware will actually output French, others will continue to output English. Well I changed the LANG variable and my keyboard still outputs English. Ideally I would like to toggle between an English keyboard and a French one. I got one suggestion to use the kbdcontrol command but that too does has no effect. Although when I tried the equivalent method of setting it up in /etc/rc.conf via the keymap variable and rebooted, the console (before startx) was affected (the key bindings were still wrong) but when I entered X-windows I was back to where I started. Try this when X is running: setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout ca -variant basic Hey! This works in my X windows (é, è, ç, à , ê, ï) but my terminal emits beeps. Is this normal? Is the an easier way (X gadget) to toggle back or do I need to always use the setxkbmap command? $ setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout ca -variant basic $ setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us -variant basic -- Peter __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: setting up french keyboard
--- Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Webster, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Webster, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Does anyone know how I can set up my 5.4 system to output French characters? If so, how? Try this when X is running: setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout ca -variant basic Hey! This works in my X windows (é, è, ç, à , ê, ï) but my terminal emits beeps. Is this normal? Is the an easier way (X gadget) to toggle back or do I need to always use the setxkbmap command? $ setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout ca -variant basic $ setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us -variant basic Hmmm. Looks like my perfectly good French accents in my compose window do not end up as such when I read them in my browser. When I reply (what I'm doing now) they come back to good characters. Is this normal? Anyways, I modified my xorg.conf keyboad section to try to toggle keyboard maps: Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbModel pc104 Option XkbLayout us,ca Option XkbOptions grp:toggle EndSection Surprisingly, by simply hitting the Right-Alt key I go from us to ca although hitting the key again has no effect. Does anyone know how I can toggle without having to issue commands all the time? __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: setting up french keyboard
-Original Message- From: Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 15:44 To: Peter; Webster, Andrew; freebsd-questions Subject: RE: setting up french keyboard --- Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Webster, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Webster, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Does anyone know how I can set up my 5.4 system to output French characters? If so, how? Try this when X is running: setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout ca -variant basic Hey! This works in my X windows (é, è, ç, à , ê, ï) but my terminal emits beeps. Is this normal? Is the an easier way (X gadget) to toggle back or do I need to always use the setxkbmap command? Hmm, looks like you are outputting UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1, or at least your mailer is doing that. UTF-8 is 16bit characters for the accented characters. Which window manager are you using with X? KDE or Gnome? Both have keyboard manipulation tools as part of their packages. Personally I prefer the US International keyboard. This way the characters stay where they belong, but ', , ^, ~, and ` are dead keys, so if you type ' followed by a you get á. I don't know if there is a quick switch key combination as in windows, but I'm sure there is something that can be setup. $ setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout ca -variant basic $ setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us -variant basic Hmmm. Looks like my perfectly good French accents in my compose window do not end up as such when I read them in my browser. When I reply (what I'm doing now) they come back to good characters. Is this normal? Anyways, I modified my xorg.conf keyboad section to try to toggle keyboard maps: Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbModel pc104 Option XkbLayout us,ca Option XkbOptions grp:toggle EndSection Surprisingly, by simply hitting the Right-Alt key I go from us to ca although hitting the key again has no effect. Does anyone know how I can toggle without having to issue commands all the time? __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: setting up french keyboard
--- Webster, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Does anyone know how I can set up my 5.4 system to output French characters? If so, how? Try this when X is running: setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout ca -variant basic Hey! This works in my X windows (é, è, ç, à , ê, ï) but my terminal emits beeps. Is this normal? Is the an easier way (X gadget) to toggle back or do I need to always use the setxkbmap command? Hmm, looks like you are outputting UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1, or at least your mailer is doing that. UTF-8 is 16bit characters for the accented characters. Which window manager are you using with X? KDE or Gnome? Both have keyboard manipulation tools as part of their packages. Personally I prefer the US International keyboard. This way the characters stay where they belong, but ', , ^, ~, and ` are dead keys, so if you type ' followed by a you get �. I don't know if there is a quick switch key combination as in windows, but I'm sure there is something that can be setup. Allrighty. I installed xxkb and it works well for toggling languages (keyboard mappings). I can also achieve the same effect using a key-combination. I am using the fluxbox window manager. So the problem remains that what I see when I type is not what appears in a browser. For instance, the following character is an 'E' with a small front slash on top of it: Ã. Is that what YOU see right now? I also cannot type out any of these characters at an xterm or on the console. -- Peter __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: setting up french keyboard
-Original Message- From: Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 10:34 To: Webster, Andrew; freebsd-questions Subject: RE: setting up french keyboard --- Webster, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 22:19 To: freebsd-questions Subject: setting up french keyboard Hi. Does anyone know how I can set up my 5.4 system to output French characters? If so, how? You can set the LANG environment variable. For example setting it to fr_CA.ISO8859-1 will produce French Canadian error messages with ISO8859-1 characters. You can see all the available locales with 'locale -a' command. You might need to change the screen fonts for other languages, but the default ISO8859-1 set works fine. Only programs that are locale aware will actually output French, others will continue to output English. Well I changed the LANG variable and my keyboard still outputs English. Ideally I would like to toggle between an English keyboard and a French one. I got one suggestion to use the kbdcontrol command but that too does has no effect. Although when I tried the equivalent method of setting it up in /etc/rc.conf via the keymap variable and rebooted, the console (before startx) was affected (the key bindings were still wrong) but when I entered X-windows I was back to where I started. Try this when X is running: setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout ca -variant basic -- Peter __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: setting up french keyboard
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 22:19 To: freebsd-questions Subject: setting up french keyboard Hi. Does anyone know how I can set up my 5.4 system to output French characters? If so, how? You can set the LANG environment variable. For example setting it to fr_CA.ISO8859-1 will produce French Canadian error messages with ISO8859-1 characters. You can see all the available locales with 'locale -a' command. You might need to change the screen fonts for other languages, but the default ISO8859-1 set works fine. Only programs that are locale aware will actually output French, others will continue to output English. -- Andrew -- Peter __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: setting up french keyboard
--- Webster, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 22:19 To: freebsd-questions Subject: setting up french keyboard Hi. Does anyone know how I can set up my 5.4 system to output French characters? If so, how? You can set the LANG environment variable. For example setting it to fr_CA.ISO8859-1 will produce French Canadian error messages with ISO8859-1 characters. You can see all the available locales with 'locale -a' command. You might need to change the screen fonts for other languages, but the default ISO8859-1 set works fine. Only programs that are locale aware will actually output French, others will continue to output English. Well I changed the LANG variable and my keyboard still outputs English. Ideally I would like to toggle between an English keyboard and a French one. I got one suggestion to use the kbdcontrol command but that too does has no effect. Although when I tried the equivalent method of setting it up in /etc/rc.conf via the keymap variable and rebooted, the console (before startx) was affected (the key bindings were still wrong) but when I entered X-windows I was back to where I started. -- Peter __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: setting up french keyboard
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RE: setting up french keyboard
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